Mr Modesty puts his success down to luck

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Cult status is not something that most bald, bespectacled 59-year-olds expect to have thrust upon them, but Ian Robertson is reluctantly coming to terms with his enhanced profile. While millions have been moved by his emotive account of Jonny Wilkinson’s dropped goal since the World Cup final, the man himself is more modest about his Saturday night’s work in Sydney.

“I thought that it was just the same as any of the other third-rate commentaries that I’ve been doing for 30 years,” Robertson said. “But the reaction has been flattering.”

As with Kenneth Wolstenholme’s description of Geoff Hurst’s third goal